Constança Capdeville

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Constança Capdeville (16 March 1937 – 4 February 1992) was a Portuguese pianist, percussionist, music educator and composer. She was born in Barcelona and lived in the village of Caxias as a child, writing piano compositions at an early age. She studied piano and composition at the Lisbon Conservatorio Nacional. After completing her musical studies, Capdeville taught music at the National Conservatory and the New University of Lisbon. She was a member of the Portuguese Council of Music and the Catalan Composers Association of Barcelona. She won the Portuguese Medal of Cultural Merit in 1990, and the Insignia of the Order of Santiago da Espada posthumously in 1992. She died in Caxias. Constança Capdeville came from a family closely knit to many of the arts. In her youth she was exposed to creative geniuses including Salvador Dalí, and her sister Eunice Muñoz is a highly regarded actress. Capdeville began her music studies in Barcelona before having settled down permanently in Portugal in 1951. She pursued further studies in piano with Varela Cid and musical composition with Jorge Croner de Vasconcellos, having received her dimploma for Higher Education in Music from the National Conservatory of Lisbon. She thenceforth specialized her studies in music by applying herself to the "Study of Ancient Music" (paleography/transribing, organology, clavichord and Performance practice) with Macário Santiago Kastner. A prolific Portuguese composer, already having begun her musical studies

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Libera Me | Amen For An Absence | ... In Somno Pacis (One For Nothing)

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Libera Me • Amen For An Absence • ... In Somno Pacis (One For Nothing)

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Constança Capdeville

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Constança Capdeville - Libera Me - Amen For An Absence

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PORTUGUESE PIANO MUSIC volume 3

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